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Prime Minister Narendra Modi today inaugurated the Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada river, saying no other project in the world has faced so many hurdles as this "engineering miracle" which many people had "conspired to stop".

The current spike in spot power prices will have minimal impact on power tariffs, says power secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla . In his first media interview, Bhalla tells Economic Times, the rise in spot power rates was not due to mismanagement.

Some institutional investors of PTC India now want their own representative on the board of directors of the country’s largest power trading firm, citing undervalued stock and financial inefficiency, said people directly aware of developments.

Leading Indian and foreign companies including Vodafone, TCS, Larsen & Toubro, Tech Mahindra, Tata Power and France’s EDF are eyeing government’s purchase of 50 lakh smart meters, which will give them access to big data on power consumption and create a market for 50 lakh SIM cards for connecting the devices.

It is planned until September 2017 to hold an international tender for the purchase of pipes and other equipment necessary for the TAPI pipeline construction in 2018 and its launch in 2019, the Vatan newspaper reported.

The rise in petrol and diesel prices has been making news for the last week or so. Change in fuel price indeed has far reaching effects as its impact ranges from daily budget to macroeconomics like inflation numbers.

In the first review meeting of the South Western Railway Zone after assuming office, Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal has suggested out-of-turn promotions for railway staff who take timely action to avert accidents.

Given that electrification is the roadmap for the future, the Railways is considering the possibility of exiting or winding up the Marhowra diesel locomotive factory being set up in Bihar’s Saran in partnership with General Electric, two years after the project was awarded.